Enumerative Geometry in East Asia 2025

6 Oct 2025, 10:00 → 10 Oct 2025, 17:00 Asia/Tokyo

Lecture Hall (Kavli IPMU)

Dates: October 6 - 10, 2025

Overview:

Enumerative geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with (virtual) counting of geometric objects of interest, such as curves on algebraic varieties. Over the past 30 years, the field has seen significant developments, inspired by string theory and mirror symmetry. Several enumerative invariants of curves have been introduced, including Gromov-Witten invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants. These invariants have proven important not only in enumerative geometry itself, but also in other areas of mathematics such as symplectic geometry, geometric representation theory, and integrable systems.

In this workshop, we will discuss recent developments in enumerative geometry from various perspectives. We invite speakers working in enumerative geometry in a broad sense and aim to foster active discussions among participants.

This is the third workshop in the Enumerative Geometry in East Asia (EGEA) series. The first was held at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and the second at KIAS in Korea. 

(The registration will be closed on September 22)

Invited speakers: 

• Alexander Alexandrov (IBS Center for Geometry and Physics)

• Arkadij Bojko (SIMIS, Fudan University)

• Andrea Brini (University of Sheffield)

• Yalong Cao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

• Kifung Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Bohan Fang (Peking University)

• Adeel Khan (Academia Sinica)

• Irit Huq-Kuruvilla (Academia Sinica)

• Hiroshi Iritani (Kyoto University)

• Tasuki Kinjo (RIMS, Kyoto University)

• Yukiko Konishi (Tsuda University)

• Peter Koroteev (University of California, Berkeley)

• Si Li (Tsinghua University)

• Henry Liu (Kavli IPMU)

• Michael McBreen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Di Yang (University of Science and Technology, China)

• Zhe Wang (RIKEN)

• Yingchun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

• Yehao Zhou (SIMIS, Fudan University)

　　

Organizing Committee Members:

• Yukinobu Toda (Kavli IPMU)
• Todor Milanov (Kavli IPMU)
• Hiraku Nakajima (Kavli IPMU)
• Henry Liu (Kavli IPMU)
• Mengxue Yang (Kavli IPMU)

• Hiroshi Iritani (Kyoto University)
  

 

Scientific Committee Members:

• Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine (Academia Sinica)
• Young-Hoon Kiem (KIAS)
• Yuan-Pin Lee (Academia Sinica)
• Jun Li (SCMS)
• Wei-Ping Li (HKUST)
• Todor Milanov (Kavli IPMU)
• Hiraku Nakajima (Kavli IPMU)
• Yong-Geun Oh (IBS-CGP)
• Yongbin Ruan (Zhejiang University)
• Gang Tian (BICMR) 
• Yukinobu Toda (Kavli IPMU)

 

Previous Workshops:

• EGEA 2023
• EGEA 2024

 

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Address:

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU),

the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8583, Japan

Arkadij_Bojko-slides

Monday 6 October

10:00 → 11:00 Remodeling Conjecture with inner branes, descendants and primaries

The Remodeling Conjecture proposed by Bouchard-Klemm-Mariño-Pasquetti relates all-genus open-closed Gromov-Witten invariants in a toric Calabi-Yau 3-manifold/3-orbifold to the Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin Topological Recursion (TR) invariants of its mirror curve. In this talk, I will describe the Remodeling Conjecture when 1) there are multiple Aganagic-Vafa Lagrangian branes, including inner branes; 2) Gromov-Witten invariants have descendant and primary insertions. Descendant insertions correspond to oscillatory integrals and Gamma classes, while primary insertions correspond to period integral of TR forms by special geometry. Furthermore, in the non-equivariant limit, we prove a conjecture of Hosono which equates quantum cohomology central charges of compactly supported coherent sheaves with period integrals of a holomorphic 3-form along integral 3-cycles on the Hori-Vafa mirror. This talk is based on joint work with Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Song Yu, and Zhengyu Zong.

Speaker: Bohan Fang (Peking University)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break @1F

11:30 → 12:30 Chiral correlations on elliptic curves and enumerative geometry

We explain an elliptic trace formula for correlations of chiral QFT on elliptic curves. As an application, we show how this leads to a corresponding holomorphic anomaly equation and enumerative geometry on elliptic curves.

Speaker: Si Li (Tsinghua University)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Satake's good basic invariants for finite complex reflection groups

In 1980, Saito, Sekiguchi and Yano found ``flat generator system’’ on the orbit spaces of irreducible finite Coxeter Groups. Their construction can be understood in the framework of the almost duality of Frobenius manifolds proposed by Dubrovin.
In late 2010’, the story was extended to well-generated finite complex reflection groups by Arsie- Lorenzoni, Kato-Mano-Sekiguchi, and Konishi-Minabe-Shiraishi.
In 2019, in a conference held at Kyoto University, Satake proposed the notion of good basic invariants for finite complex reflection groups and showed that good basic invariants are flat for fintie Coxeter groups. I think that Satake’s definition, given in terms of regular elements, opened a new perspective. In the joint work with S. Minabe, we showed that good basic invariants are flat and found that taking a reflection subquotient which preserves the largest degree induces good basic invariants on the reflection subquotient. In this talk, I will explain these results.

Speaker: Yukiko Konishi (Tsuda University)

15:00 → 16:00 Tea Time @3F

16:00 → 17:00 Quantum K-Rings of Partial Flag Varieties, the Coulomb Branch, and the Bethe Ansatz

We prove two conjectured presentations of the quantum $K$-ring of type A partial flag varieties, one coming from quantum field theory, the other coming from quantum integrable systems. Our main tool to do this is using abelianization, which also gives a purely geometric interpretation for the Bethe Ansatz equations, which appear in both conjectures.

Speaker: Irit Huq-Kuruvilla (Academia Sinica)

Tuesday 7 October

10:00 → 11:00 Descendent transformations in Donaldson-Thomas wall-crossings

In recent work with Nick Kuhn and Felix Thimm, we proved a Joyce-style "universal" wall-crossing formula for certain equivariant moduli problems of 3-Calabi-Yau type, including Donaldson-Thomas theory. An immediate and productive question is how tautological classes like descendents transform under such wall-crossings. I will present an explicit descendent transformation formula for the Donaldson-Thomas/Pandharipande-Thomas wall-crossing of equivariant vertices, explain how the computation works, and speculate on how it may be generalized. This serves as a fairly down-to-earth example of how such wall-crossing formulas may be applied.

Speaker: Henry Liu (Kavli IPMU)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break @1F

11:30 → 12:30 Refined Gromov-Witten invariants

I will discuss a definition of refined curve counting invariants of Calabi-Yau threefolds with a C*-action in terms of stable maps on Calabi-Yau fivefolds. The corresponding disconnected generating function should conjecturally equate the Nekrasov-Okounkov K-theoretic membrane index under a refined version of the Gromov-Witten/Pandharipande-Thomas correspondence. I'll present several acid tests validating the conjecture, both in the A and the B-model. This is based on joint work with Yannik Schuler (ETH Zurich), arXiv:2410.00118.

Speaker: Andrea Brini (University of Scheffield)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Time

14:00 → 15:00 Mirror theorem and shift operators

The genus-zero Gromov-Witten invariants of a smooth projective variety can be encoded in an infinite-dimensional Lagrangian submanifold, known as the Givental cone, within the loop space of the cohomology group. A Givental-style mirror theorem states that a certain explicit cohomology-valued hypergeometric series, called the I-function, lies in this Givental cone. In joint work with Coates, Corti and Tseng, we established a Givental-style mirror theorem for toric Deligne-Mumford stacks. In this talk, I will explore the connection between Givental-style mirror theorems and shift operators for equivariant parameters, and I will reframe our results using this perspective. This is partly based on joint work with Fumihiko Sanda.

Speaker: Hiroshi Iritani (Kyoto University)

15:00 → 15:30 Tea Time @ 1F

15:30 → 16:30 Geometric and Algebraic Constructions of Quantum Integrable Hierarchies

The theory of integrable hierarchies is deeply related to the enumerative geometry, and in particular, quantum integrable hierarchies provide efficient tools to compute Gromov-Witten invariants via the symplectic field theory. In this talk, I will compare two different ways for constructing quantum integrable hierarchies. One construction is geometric and given by A. Buryak and P. Rossi by considering the Hodge integrals over double ramification cycles, and the other one is algebraic by applying Weyl quantization to vertex algebras. I will explain these two constructions through the example of the quantum dispersionless KdV hierarchy which corresponds to the symplectic field theory of a disk.

Speaker: Zhe Wang (RIKEN)

Wednesday 8 October

10:00 → 11:00 Stable envelopes for critical loci

In a joint work with Andrei Okounkov, Yehao Zhou and Zijun Zhou. We introduce stable envelopes in critical cohomology and K-theory for symmetric quiver varieties with potentials and related geometries.

Critical stable envelopes are compatible with dimensional reductions, specializations, Hall products, and other geometric constructions. In particular, for tripled quivers with canonical cubic potentials, critical stable envelopes
reproduce those on Nakajima quiver varieties, constructed by Maulik and Okounkov.

If time permits, we also mention their applications to enumerative geometric problems. Applications to geometric representation theory will be mentioned in Yehao’s talk.

Speaker: Yalong Cao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break @1F

11:30 → 12:30 Quantum K-theory at roots of unity

I will describe how the quasimap approach to equivariant quantum K-theory is modified when the curve-counting parameter is sent not to unity, but to a primitive root of unity instead. In particular, this leads to the appearance of the Frobenius action on the moduli space. Upon reducing the quantum difference equation modulo primes, we arrive at the Grothendieck–Katz p-curvature and prove that it is isospectral to a standard curvature operator precomposed with Frobenius.

Speaker: Peter Koroteev (UC Berkeley)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Calabi-Yau four wall-crossing

The Gross-Joyce-Tanaka conjecture proposes a universal wall-crossing formula for Calabi-Yau 4 theories. I will present recent progress towards proving an equivariant refinement of this framework, generalized to include insertions. This refinement can be formulated in terms of particular deformations of vertex algebras produced by adapting Joyce's construction. The utility of the theory is demonstrated through applications to Nekrasov’s Magnificent Four conjecture and to proving tautological stable pair correspondences. This project includes joint work with Kuhn, Liu, and Thimm.

Speaker: Arkadij Bojko (SIMIS)

Thursday 9 October

10:00 → 11:00 Symplectic duality and the Tutte polynomial

The Tutte polynomial was introduced in the 1940s as a two-variable generalisation of the chromatic polynomial of a graph. It is the universal matroid invariant satisfying a deletion-contraction relation, and is the subject of much recent work.

I will describe a geometric realisation of the Tutte polynomial via the cohomology of a symplectic dual pair of hypertoric varieties. The same construction associates an interesting two-variable polynomial to any pair of symplectically dual spaces, whose one-variable specialisations recover the respective Poincare polynomials. Joint work with Ben Davison.

Speaker: Michael McBreen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break @1F

11:30 → 12:30 Critical stable envelopes and Yangians

Using the critical stable envelopes (see Yalong’s talk), we can construct solutions to Yang-Baxter equations with R-matrixes acting on the critical cohomologies of symmetric quiver varieties with potentials. Then, the FRT formalism gives natural (shifted) (super) Yangian action on these critical cohomologies. For example, in the case of tripled quiver with the canonical cubic potential, the zero shifted Yangian reproduces the Maulik-Okounkov Yangian. In general, given a symmetric quiver Q with potential W, we get a family of shifted Yangians with shift homomorphisms and coproducts, where the zero shifted one is a deformation of enveloping algebra of g[u] for a certain Lie algebra g determined by (Q,W). The positive part of g is expected to be related to the BPS Lie algebra of (Q,W). This talk is based on joint work with Yalong Cao, Andrei Okounkov, and Zijun Zhou.

Speaker: Yehao Zhou (SIMIS)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 KP Integrability in Topological Recursion

Topological recursion is a powerful tool in mathematical physics, applicable to various problems in enumerative geometry, such as intersections on moduli spaces and Hurwitz numbers. In my talk, I will discuss the KP integrability of topological recursion, which arises naturally in the context of the x-y swap relation. This integrability can be described through certain integral transforms, leading to Kontsevich-like matrix models.

This talk is based on a joint work with Boris Bychkov, Petr Dunin-Barkowski, Maxim Kazarian, and Sergey Shadrin.

Speaker: Alexander Alexandrov (IBS center for Geometry and Physics)

15:00 → 16:00 Tea Time @3F

16:00 → 17:00 Br\'ezin--Gross--Witten numbers and Witten's intersection numbers: their combinatorics and uniform large genus asymptotics

Br\'ezin--Gross--Witten (BGW) numbers and Witten's intersection numbers are two families of rational numbers, that both have physical origins, topological meanings and backgrounds from matrix models. Their partition functions are known to be particular tau-functions of the KdV hierarchy, satisfying Virasoro constraints. In view of integrable systems, the origin of the BGW numbers and Witten's intersection numbers goes back to bispectrality after Duistermaat and Gr\"unbaum. In this talk, we study combinatorics of these numbers, and discover and prove their uniform large genus asymptotics. Applications to the Painlev\'e II hierarchy and to the Painlev\'e I equation are given. The talk is based on joint works with Jindong Guo, Paul Norbury and Don Zagier.

Speaker: Di Yang (University of Science and Tehnology)

Friday 10 October

10:00 → 11:00 TBA

Speaker: Yingchun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break @1F

11:30 → 12:30 Quantum Cohomology, Shift operators, and Coulomb branches

Given a complex reductive group G and a G-representation N, there is an associated Coulomb branch algebra defined by Braverman–Finkelberg–Nakajima. In joint work with Chan and Lam, we show that these Coulomb branch algebras can be described as the largest subcomodules of the equivariant BM-homology of the affine Grassmannian on which certain shift operators admit non-equivariant limits. I will outline the main ideas of the proof, and explain how the defining equations of Coulomb branches reflect the properness of the moduli spaces needed to construct shift operators.
As an application, I will also present work in preparation with Chan, Lam, and Chow that gives a geometric construction of a (degenerate) DAHA action on the equivariant quantum cohomology of T^*(G/P) via stable envelopes.

Speaker: Kifung Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Topological Langlands duality for 3-manifolds via DT cohomology

This talk concerns the Langlands program for 3-manifolds, initiated by Ben-Zvi–Gunningham–Jordan–Safronov. From the physical perspective, it arises as part of S-duality in 4d N=4 supersymmetric quantum field theory. One formulation of the Langlands duality conjecture for 3-manifolds involves infinite-dimensional DT cohomology, defined as the cohomology of certain perverse sheaves on the stack of representations of the fundamental group.

I will introduce a finite-dimensional subspace of DT cohomology, called the BPS cohomology, and explain that DT cohomology decomposes under parabolic induction (a.k.a. the Eisenstein series map) into the BPS cohomology. This reduces the Langlands duality conjecture to an isomorphism of finite-dimensional vector spaces. In addition, we provide a formula for the dimension of BPS cohomology for the 3-manifold T^3, and show that Langlands duality for types B/C follows from the Jacobi identity of the theta function.

This talk involves joint works with Hyeonjun Park, Pavel Safronov, Chenjing Bu, Ben Davison, Anders Ibáñez Núñez, Tudor Pădurariu, and Lucien Hennecart.

Speaker: Tasuki Kinjo (Kyoto University)

15:00 → 16:00 Tea Time @3F

16:00 → 17:00 Microlocalization of virtual fundamental classes

I will report on joint work in progress with Tasuki Kinjo, Hyeonjun Park, and Pavel Safronov, regarding Joyce's conjecture on a (-1)-shifted microlocalization of the virtual fundamental class. This construction subsumes not only the usual virtual fundamental class for quasi-smooth moduli spaces (read: perfect obstruction theories), but also other virtual class type constructions appearing e.g. in DT4 and GLSM invariants.

Speaker: Adeel Khan (Academia Sinica)